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Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

small, extremely hairy moth, about 35 cocoons together on tree trunk

Habitat:

rainforest

Notes:

spotted this hiking a dirt road through Caratinga reserve. they were only a few feet off the ground on the trunk of a large tree. never seen anything like. showed it to some local biologists and they had never seen it before either. hoping someone can ID it

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)

Thanks Ornithoptera80 for pulling up one of my older and more unusual spottings. I thought it was strange to see and its nice to have some confirmation of just how special it was.
That's very bizarre! Usually caterpillars stay together as a group through the first few instar periods, not through the cocooning phase. Especially for a Flannel moths, most are never gregarious, (or stay together as a group). Very interesting!
Yes, I think it is a type of Flannel moth. At least we have some direction now.
Flannel moth was Carolina's beautiful spotting!

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PublishedApril 18, 2011

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